Friday. Went to
church to gather up and send out laundry.
Brought leftover food to divide up.

March 24

Saturday. Bought a
dozen pansy plants from Wilbur Laws and put them around the pecan tree.

March 25

Sunday. S.S. and
Church. Then Ira and Minnie took us,
Nora & Eula, Paul and Neva to dinner at Mrs. Taylor’s. P.M. we took Grace and Doc and drove to 43
district, then to McClure’s in river bottom.
Nice farm home.

Monday. Cleaned all
day. Washed the whole outside of
house. Kenney and I did some yard work.

March 27

Tuesday. Worked some
more at house cleaning. Also went to CWF
luncheon and Missionary study.

March 28

Thursday. Cleaned
living and dining rooms. Bought
groceries with Nora and Maude. Also
bought a pair of blond shoes at store.

March 29

Thursday. Baked
banana bread for food sale. Put out
washing.

March 30

Friday. Baked more
banana bread. Made plans for food sale
and for Grandma’s birthday party.

March 31

Saturday. Cleaned
house & ironed. Made Grandma’s black
slip. Went to Food Sale. Also had my hair done – Becky & Ike (son and wife) came at noon.

My grandma never stopped, did she? And it's all about her work - she was 69 years old in 1956. When the family first moved from Van Buren to Fayetteville (home of the University of Arkansas) about 1930, it had been for two reasons - the Comstock department store in Van Buren could not make enough money to support more than one family and my grandmother had plans that involved the University. With all their Crawford County cousins attending school in Fayetteville, she could take in boarders and they would also be near for their own five children to attend. They rented for several years - a succession of the biggest houses they could afford - and she did indeed take in boarders, up to about five young people in addition to the Comstock five. She charged them $1 a day for room and board (three meals). Not only did she cook for up to twelve people, but she baked brown bread and the youngest child, Ike, sold the loaves out of his wagon. By the time, 1956 rolled around with just two in the household, all of her days must have seemed like vacations.

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Mammaw's Diary

My grandmother kept a diary for a five-year window of her life. I am posting the contents here for my cousins and other family members, as well as those other persons mentioned in her entries. Notes in italics are my annotations. She names a number of friends and church members that I did not know.

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